by Denis Campbell
“First Dude” Todd Palin busily made the party rounds as did many A list celebrities in Washington. Hollywood and Politics came together for one star-studded night at the annual White House Correspondent’s dinner. Sarah Palin though was forced to remain in Alaska and actually govern her way through a page-11 below the fold [...]
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Where Was Sarah?
Posted on 11 May 2009 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, clean coal, climate change, First Dude, Joe Camel, Sarah Palin, TED Talks, TED.com, Todd Palin
Oil Company Abandons Wind for… More Oil!
Posted on 19 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, Canadian Oil, junkies, London Array, oil shale, profits, renewables, Shell, The Guardian, veins between their toes, £4 billion pound quarterly profit
(reprise article)
Surprise! Royal Dutch Shell abandoned its 33% stake in the London Array off the coast of Kent, the world’s largest wind harnessing project and at the same time announced it was making a major investment in Canadian Oil exploration.
In an official corporate statement reported originally in The Guardian, Shell said “the decision to sell [...]
Good Feeling’s Gone
Posted on 07 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 000 miles wide and 10 inches deep, 18 million votes, 4-more years, 527 groups, ads, ads so vile they are now in the Republican arsenal, Al Gore, Anglerfish, are too Democratic, attack ad machine, base is 10, because what’s at stake here is bigger than any one of, bitch slap, black community, burning through his fingertips, Bush = McCain, Bush fatigue, cathartic for the entire party, chum for the hungry masses and media sharks, clinton, conservative half, Countdown, delegates heard, democratic party, Democrats Abroad, do this, economic fatigue, EVERYONE has a bloody voice, everyone is toeing party line, Finding Nemo, flower children, general doom and gloom, get back in the line, get over themselves, Good Feeling’s Gone, good for Obama, group therapy, hates John McCain as nominee, her name should be placed in nomination, Hillary and Bill back to reality, Howard Dean, it’s about winning the damned election, Keith Olbermann, kow-towing to the Clinton’s, live in state of fear of upsetting, living in cloud-cuckoo land, machines. Tiananmen Square, Marlin, money is flowing, narcissistic ways, NBC Political Director Chuck Todd, Never bring a knife to a gunfight, no one dares upset anyone, nobody told you to go $20 million in debt Senator, now want everyone to pay for them, obama, on board, pay your money, polarisation in the nation, policy issue setbacks, preparing for 2012, Republican Party, RNC, run them over, should portend a Democratic landslide, special comment, study it further, stunt, Supreme Court justices, tabled every action, take a decision, take the mantel of leadership, the party will never forgive her, they know how to win elections, walked out of meeting wondering why we bothered coming, war fatigue, we’re too busy explaining our feeling, when the Democratic Party is divided they lose election, why should I support after the party after what they di, will backfire, won only three Presidential elections in the last 40-ye, you attacked Obama, you did that yourself
This line was uttered by Marlin the Daddy clownfish searching for his son in the film ‘Finding Nemo’ when he comes to the realisation that the light in the depths of the ocean he has been dreamily following is the lure of an Anglerfish. Barack Obama must feel the same way when a YouTube video of [...]
Why John?
Posted on 06 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 527 group, 96-year old mother, Al Gore, American people facing economic catastrophe, attack dogs, attack without showing real plans, bi-partisan, Britney Spears, brutally blind-sided by Bush/Rove/Cheney, clinton, comparing Obama to Moses, dialogues, dignified campaign, fear of losing jobs, green-eyed envy, health catastrophe wiping out their life-savings, homes to foreclosure, Iraq, John Kerry, lifelong Democrat, McCain, MSNBC’s Keith Obermann, New York Times Op-Ed columnist Maureen Dowd, obama, Obama Energy Policy, Paris Hilton, pledged to bring honour and dignity to the campaign tra, promised a clean campaign, real issues facing real people, shut the hell up Senator, Straight Talking Maverick, the Chosen One, thought Britney Spears ad was dumb, tossing spitballs, town-hall meeting style debates, tyre gauges, upstaged by Obama, Vanity, who are you, Why John
You promised a clean campaign. You pledged to bring honour and dignity to the campaign trail. You wanted the campaign to be about real issues facing real people.
Is it because you ran a dignified campaign in ’00 and were brutally blind-sided by the thugs running the Bush/Rove/Cheney campaign? Does your party honestly believe this will [...]
How Green is Your Grocer? Ask Al Gore.
Posted on 26 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, ASDA, Business Issues, carbon footprint, carbon neutral, carbon replacement, Earth Day, SAinsbury, TED.com, Tesco
(Reprise Article)
The Tesco, Sainsbury and ASDA chains have all recently attempted to jump on the green bandwagon. Turning out lights at night, offering replacement re-useable bags for plastic and other small but visible steps to help become more carbon neutral. The question on this Earth Day is
Oil Villains, Look in the Mirror
Posted on 07 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: $150 a barrel oil, $4.50+ a gallon at the pump, 24/7/366, 65% imported, Al Gore, central air conditioning, Dick Cheney, former governemnt officials, full speed, George W. Bush, Nissan Pathfinder, offices, oil executives, oil fired megawatt hours, Oil Villains, point fingers, reduce energy dependence, SUVs the size of small homes, television pundits, The Netherlands, USA woke up, Washington blame game
Al Gore in April said of plans to extract oil from shale, “a junkie injects drugs between their toes when the veins in their arms collapse.” We’ve talked for decades about needing to reduce energy dependence whilst driving SUVs the size of small homes, living in uninhabitable southern areas where silence is impossible with central [...]
I’ll Go Away, No… Wait A Minute
Posted on 28 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, career meltdown, clinton, Company, Elaine Stritch, George Furth, Go Away No Wait a Minute, Howard Dean, last primaries, Lorrie Morgan, obama, Stephen Sondheim, super delegates
I felt today a cross between Bobby, the unmarried suffering star of the 70’s hit musical Company and country singer Lorrie Morgan, who sang the 1998 country music hit ‘Go Away.’ The “I’m conceding, no I’m not” antics of the Clinton campaign today have been tragic to follow. Bobby struggled though George Furth’s 11 scatological, 1-act plays set [...]
We Say The Right Things…
Posted on 24 May 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, Ali al-Naimi, Business Issues, carbon set-offs, environment, George Bush, Gerald Ford, lame duck. politicians, oil $150 per barrel, plant trees, Saudi Arabia, UK Parliament, US Congress
Everyone wants to do more to reduce our carbon footprints and save the planet. We re-cycle, buy carbon set-offs, plant trees in rain forests, give money to green causes and try as we might, we seem to not make as much progress as is needed. Al Gore raised our awareness level, but with the economy [...]
Gordon and Al - Separated at Birth?
Posted on 28 April 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Al Gore, Bill Clinton, David Cameron, George Bush, Gordon Brown, local elections, Number 10, Prime Minister's Questions, sense of duty, stiff, Time Europe, Tony Blair, Tories
These two very bright, inquisitive, sometimes stiff politicians were bound from youth by strong Calvinist and Southern gentlemanly senses of duty. Gordon Brown and Al Gore are decent honourable men of service. They are true policy wonk lovers of detail who never look or feel comfortable in the supercilious glare of 24/7/365 media. They often [...]
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